Winterhawks players honored

Portland forward Joachim Blichfeld is the Western Hockey League Western Conference Player of the Year.

Portland's Cody Glass won the Brad Hornung Trophy as the Western Conference Most Sportsmanlike Player.

Blichfeld and Glass are first-team Western Hockey League Western Conference as selected by the league's general managers.

The league announced its award winners and all-conference teams in advance of the beginning of the playoffs on Friday. The Winterhawks open with games on Friday and Saturday at Spokane. Games 3 and 4 of the best-of-7 series with the Chiefs are 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at Memorial Coliseum.

Blichfeld, a 20-year-old San Jose Sharks prospect from Frederikshavn, Denmark, led the WHL in points with 114 and tied for the regular-season lead in goals scored with 53.

Glass, a 19-year-old Vegas Golden Knights prospect, led the WHL in points per game and was named a first-teamer despite missing 30 games due to injuries and the World Juniors tournament.

The Eastern Conference Player of the Year is Trey Fix-Wolanski of the Edmonton Oil Kings.

The other Western Conference awards announced on Thursday: Top defenseman Ty Smith (Spokane), top goalie Dustin Wolf (Everett), rookie of the year Lassi Thomson (Kelowna), executive of the year Garry Davidson (Everett) and coach of the year Michael Dyck (Vancouver Giants).

Joining Blichfeld and Glass as a first-team forward for the West is Everett's Connor Dewar. The first-team defensemen are Spokane's Ty Smith and Vancouver's Bowen Byram, and the first-team goalie is Everett's Dustin Wolf.

The Western Conference second team consists of goalie Beck Warm of Tri-City, defensemen Lassi Thomson of Kelowna and Scott Walford of Victoria and forwards Parker AuCoin of Tri-City, Matthew Wedman of Seattle and Riley Woods of Spokane.